There will be 100 million U.S. Internet users by the end of the decade, and … there will be tens of millions more users abroad. “You have to imagine that this kind of reaching out from anywhere in the world to anywhere else in the world, at your fingertips, has got to change the way we think about our world”
Predictor: Cerf, Vinton G.
Prediction, in context:In a 1992 article for The Boston Globe, Charles Radin quotes Vinton Cerf. Radin writes: ”Vinton Cerf, a codesigner of the Internet and now president of the nonprofit Internet Society, predicts there will be 100 million U.S. Internet users by the end of the decade, and that there will be tens of millions more users abroad. ‘You have to imagine that this kind of reaching out from anywhere in the world to anywhere else in the world, at your fingertips, has got to change the way we think about our world,’ Cerf said.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1992
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Number of Users
Name of publication: Boston Globe
Title, headline, chapter name: U.S. Data Highway Gathers Speed; Rules of Road Eyed for Computer Network
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=42db234241bdf75eade74e043bcfbae4&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVlz-lSlzV&_md5=415ea9315c52e30cf049ee99ccde80e7
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Garrison, Betty